Documents by Readdle now available for iPhone

Documents by Readdle is now available for the iPhone. Now a universal app, Documents lets you read Office documents, annotate PDFs, edit text files, listen to music, look at photos, and more. Across the bottom of the screen, there are four sections, along with access to the built-in web browser. Documents stores all of your files, from music to PDFs, and you can move files from Documents to iCloud by tapping the “Edit” button and selecting which files to move.

The Network section allows you to add and access different online storage options like Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive. It also allows you to access devices on your local network, which allows you to transfer files to and from Documents. Finally, the Settings tab gives you fine control over how you view and manage documents, as well as browser options.

Speaking of the browser, it’s accessed by tapping the compass icon next to the Settings tab. You can use the browser to download files directly to Documents, and you can specify which folder they should be downloaded to. You can control the user agent of the browser in Settings. By default, it’s set to iPad Safari Mobile, but it can be changed to anything from Google Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer.

Documents by Readdle is free, so if you're looking for an app that can put all of your documents in one place, go ahead and try it out.

Reader comments

Documents by Readdle now available for iPhone

Certainly not complaining about a free price tag, but how do they support their company and products? Mainly, for myself, I hope their are no ads robbing my screen space with this app. Any insight anyone could provide would be appreciated. Thanks.

People have reason to be skeptical. These app makers aren't working for hundreds of hours on an app for free. They're making money somewhere. Is it from an up front cost? In app purchases? Selling ad space? These aren't all that bad and (IMO) legitimate ways to make money. Where it gets into dangerous territory is if they're mining data from you without your knowledge to sell to others (contacts info and browser history, etc) as their revenue source.

I'm still dismayed that the App Store does not display what permissions an app is requesting before you install it. Android has had this for years, giving a line by line breakdown exactly what an app can and can't do with your phone.

Yea. I swapped back to iPhone 4. You really tend to miss the simple things. You also can't see how many times an app has been downloaded. This is a great way for me to see if it is worth downloading sometimes. All we see are reviews.

That being said, this app is awesome, but I am too, worried about how they make their money. I do not know if they are data-mining me.

No, in iOS you know exactly what permissions an app has because you have to grant them manually the first time an app requests them. Permissions can be toggled on and off at any time categorically within Settings. Don't remember which apps you granted, say, location info for? Settings>Privacy>Location_Services There you can toggle access for each app or all.

Regarding Documents by Readdle, works well and it's beautiful. I think their money is made from other products the offer which can integrate with Documents, such as PDF Expert which is also good.

Exactly! I rather like iOS's organization for permissions and notifications, too. In Android, all those settings are buried within each app's settings. If you had 100 apps installed, it could take an hour to go through every one; Messy. That said, I am a fan of Android, even compiling my own ROMs for years. But I switched to iOS a few months ago and now prefer it.

I'm in the exact same boat as you, my friend (well, didn't compile the ROM's myself, but did enjoy using CM 10.1). Just got tired of !@#$ing around with the phone just to make it work with the latest OS (or to just work, for that matter) vs. having a phone that just worked out of the box.

Honestly never heard of this app as I don't own an iPad. I will try this out and love that it syncs with iCloud. There have been a few occurrences where I needed a certain document from home while on the go.